The police officer who murdered Sarah Everard has lodged an appeal to reduce the length of his jail sentence. Wayne Couzens was handed a whole-life tariff in September after kidnapping, raping and murdering the 33-year-old. The Metropolitan Police firearms officer used his warrant card and handcuffs to snatch the marketing executive off the street, using Covid lockdown rules to make a false arrest. The 48-year-old had been planning for at least a month before abducting Ms Everard as she walked home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on the evening of March 3. A Court of Appeal official said on Wednesday: “An application (for permission to mount an appeal against sentence) has been lodged.” Passing sentence at the Old Bailey, Lord Justice Fulford said the case in which a serving officer abused his position was so exceptional that it warranted a whole life order, meaning Couzens will never …